[ecrea] CfP Small Cinemas COnference in Krakow, September 2016

Call for Papers

CONFLICT AND CONTROVERSY in Small Cinemas

  (7^th  International Conference in Small Cinemas)

*The Jagiellonian University*

Krakow, Poland, September 28-30, 2016

DEADLINE: April 30, 2016**

The topic of the conference is CONFLICT AND CONTROVERSY -- /the divisive
areas in contemporary societies and the ways in which they are presented
in small cinemas today./

CONFLICT AND CONTROVERSY are at the basis of almost every political
event communicated in the contemporary media, dominate media headlines
and are present in popular culture and film on a large scale. Due to the
vastness of the project, we seek the representation of conflict and
controversy only in contemporary cinemas, including fiction film,
documentary film, short film and private cinema, but disregarding other
media like television and internet.

The foremost objective of this project is to examine, from the point of
view of both interdisciplinary and intercultural studies, small cinemas
and their presentation of society at its most vulnerable time when
people experience conflicts of all kinds. Of specific interest is the
phenomenon of resistance of small cinemas to social pressure, political
influence, national controversies and historical past in the
presentation of controversial phenomena in small cinemas.

In their presentation of political and social conflict, small cinemas
often face controversy themselves since their presentation of conflict
may also be controversial, unusual, strange, or catering to specific
audiences. For instance, the range of subjects they deal with is
addressed to audiences situated within a defined geographical locality;
within a range of specific beliefs and convictions; or, it caters to
general audiences interested in an individual topic, such as the
protection of environment.

*/Thematic areas for proposals:/**//*

I. Distribution of wealth

•New poverty

•New hunger

•Classism

•Work Migration

•Pleasure migration (tourism)

II. Stereotypes

•Stereotype – theoretical debate on the meaning, ideology and history of
the term

•Origin of stereotypes: antagonism, violence, colonial practices, the
politics of oppression

• Racial stereotypes

• Ethnicity stereotypes

•Figuration of the ethnic types

•Influence of film on the reformulation of ethnic types in the social
subconscious

• Gender stereotypes

•LGBT stereotypes

•Ethnic/sexual/race/national stereotypes at the crossroads

•Physical, mental disabilities in cinema

III.     Terrorism and the war with terror

IV.Exploitation of women and children and economically underprivileged

V.       New aesthetics in small cinemas

VI.      Ecology, protection of environment, biological engineering

*Place: *The Department of Film at the Faculty of Management and Social
Communication of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow

*Contact:* Prof Janina Falkowska (falkow /at/ uwo.ca) <mailto:(falkow /at/ uwo.ca)>;

Associate Prof.Lenuta Giukin (lenuta.giukin /at/ oswego.edu)
<mailto:(lenuta.giukin /at/ oswego.edu)>;

Prof Krzysztof Loska (krzysztof.loska /at/ uj.edu.pl)
<mailto:(krzysztof.loska /at/ uj.edu.pl)>

and mgr Agnieszka Kiejziewicz (agnes.kiejziewicz /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(agnes.kiejziewicz /at/ gmail.com)> (technical matters)

*Paper proposals: *Please send a three hundred words Paper Proposal to
Janina, Lenuta or Krzysztof in English or Polish by the April 30, 2016.

*Conference fee:*

Academics 100$ US

Students 30$ US

*/Organizers/*:

-The Department of Film at the Faculty of Management and Social
Communication of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland);
-The Department of Film Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the
University of Western Ontario (Canada);
-The University of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko Biala (Poland)
-The State University of New York at Oswego (USA).

*The organizers are also planning to release the post-conference
publication.***


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Lenuta Giukin
Modern Languages and Literatures
SUNY Oswego
7060 State Route 104
254 Campus Center
Oswego, NY 13126
(315) 312-2461(315)

Dina Iordanova FRSA
Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures
Director, Institute for Global Cinema and Creative Cultures (IGCCC)
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/globalcinema
https://www.facebook.com/staigccc
Publisher, St Andrews Film Studies
University of St Andrews, Scotland

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